Gentoo lured me into OpenRC a long time ago and it’s just basically my go to now. It’s just so easy and “feels” less bloated to me.
Mikelius
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Mikelius@lemmy.mlto
DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Is it a good idea to root my phone for degoogling?
4·1 month agoThis!
I also use it for SwiftBackup and some custom crons for scripts I run on the phone. It’s also very useful with pcapdroid when I want to analyze the traffic that apps are attempting to generate.
I use root for being able to customize my phone greatly and with extra security benefits (like akunohana shared) while also bring able to degoogle. But if degoogling is the only thing you care about then there are other options, especially if you’re not fully adept to understanding the file system and/or Linux already.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1English
3·1 month agoDef wouldn’t. As much as I love opnsense and recommend them, their major updates tend to break something every time for me. Then again, my overall setup is a lot more complex than the average person, so maybe that’s on me lol.
Never heard of chatto until this one… Anyone here tested it vs fluxxer and have any opinions?
My front yard takes over an hour with a push mower and the terrain is too complex for a ride mower. I’d be curious if I’d be the exception, unless the robot mowers are terrible at landscape changes like a robot vacuum would be. Including some boulders… But maybe still cheaper to hire some kid if I get that far on the lazy scale.
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DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•New Google ToS inaccessible without login
9·2 months agoNintendo did something similar. They added to their privacy policy basically saying you grant permission to them monitoring chats, video, and audio through the switch (does switch even have a camera? I can’t remember). They say if you disagree you can login and delete your account. Catch is that when you log in, you can’t go to delete your account until you agree to the terms. And if you don’t acknowledge by the given deadline, you’re automatically agreeing to them.
I contacted their privacy email and they basically said I had to agree first before I could delete my account. Literally impossible to deny the terms.
I can keep ranting but I think I’ve made my point. They all suck.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party
152·2 months agoSo I’m definitely not familiar with swedish politics, but does this site actually represent the entire party? The party site is just a very vague description of some group of people that sound like they’re anti left and anti right at the same time. The Wikipedia article on the party doesn’t really help make sense to what they expect to accomplish, but again that could just be my ignorance to it.
Would love to know more about all this, with more reliable sources if possible (vs a website that just says something without really providing sources). Mullvad is about trying to protect privacy with fighting big brother, and I’m really not seeing anything about the party that indicates it wants the opposite.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Google is testing a new CAPTCHA that asks you to make hand gestures on camera
7·3 months agoAlternatives for a11y, by Google? That’s silly. They haven’t brought accessibility to even their main products like Google drive, I highly doubt they care. Those of us with specific requirements for accessibility are the least of their concerns.
This is exactly how my network is setup. All devices log to my syslog server which I feed into a database with a self made python app, and Grafana goes from there. It’s been running nonstop for like 5 years without any problems, so I’d say your in the right path!
It’s also helped me catch things like:
- finding out android leaked IPs outside VPN tunnels on connect (prior to headlines claiming this)
- finding out nslookup on termux ignores the phone’s DNS settings and tries to use Google instead
- finding other devices that ignore my DNS server settings
- noticing that my work Mac will turn itself on in some weird silent passive mode in the middle of the night to try and send data to apple (sleep or powered off don’t matter) - caught this from the logs sent by my router
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Programming@programming.dev•AI code increasingly leads to production failures
2·3 months agoSame here. I’m looking at all my other hobbies and trying to see which one would be the best… Unfortunately I doubt I could get anywhere near the same salary unless I find a way to start my own successful business out of one of them. That sounds just as stressful though lol
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DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Google Search as you know it is over - but there are alternatives
6·3 months agoSelf hosting searxng was the best decision I ever made for search engines. Just point it to a bunch of different engines of my choice and use it. I seriously no longer ever find myself with the old habit of “ugh okay maybe I’ll get better results in [insert other engines] this time”… Probably cause it’s using them all.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to block unwanted outbound traffic from your containersEnglish
3·4 months agoI’ve just use iptables rules which default block all docker containers any network access. I assign static ranges to those I permit access, though. It does occasionally throw me off when adding new services and not understanding why sometimes they don’t work right away, but I prefer it that way.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service
21·4 months agoOnce again punishing the users abiding by the law, while rewarding the criminals. What’s new.
Now wondering what will happen with my 2 Mint Mobile numbers I’ve had for 3-4 years, without making a single phone call. I only use them for internet access.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Trump uses Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to justify expanding spying powers as deadline nears
1·4 months agodeleted by creator
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Space@beehaw.org•'This is really intolerable': Astronomers protest giant orbiting mirror project and SpaceX's million AI satellites
91·5 months agoIt’s hard to describe how much this boils my blood. It would also f up the entire world’s natural ecosystem at an even faster rate than it is now. We’re not only destroying the planet, but taking ourselves down with it by trapping ourselves here.
But who cares, cause there’s money involved, right? ffs.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Of couse i know how to install gentoo, you compile the kernel or something
10·6 months agoStill using my Gentoo install on my server which is now going on maybe 8 years?.. Never changing it lol.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVsEnglish
30·7 months agoHaving a smart tv doesn’t mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don’t need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?English
4·7 months agoI bought a separate laptop and set it up with an encrypted password that both my wife and I know. It contains instructions on everything from my self hosted stuff to anything else related to my personal life that she would need. It’s 100% offline to keep it safe from a network compromise. This whole thing was especially important since I wanted to make sure my family could access all photos, calendar, contacts, etc for the last decade that are stored on my server.
It takes time to transfer everything to it (all in Obsidian) since it’s a brain dump… But it actually benefits me too. I’ve had a few times where I was like “how the hell did I set that up?” and had some instructions on there the helped lol.
Definitely recommend this to others to consider.
I’ll be honest, I think the grammar and way the post was written is what’s annoying me most. I’m reading it with at least 3 different possible meanings.
Note that it doesn’t prevent sso sharing. I was signed into Amazon and a separate Firefox (actually librewolf) tab I had opened looking up a movie star on… IMDb force created an account for me using my Amazon account. No I did not get a prompt to accept it and no I did not click anywhere near the login buttons. Seen that this has happened to a few people but not everyone so it’s almost like they’re slow rolling it.
I’ve since isolated Amazon into its own profile altogether and added Amazon to unlock on my main browser profile. And of course requested deletion of my sudden imdb account